Bonds blasts No. 700

AP/Ben Margot

Bonds blasts No. 700Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 700th career home run off Jake Peavy of the San Diego Padres at SBC Park in San Francisco on Sept. 17. Bonds is only the third player in Major League Baseball history to pass the 700-homer plateau. He finished the season with 703 homers, 11 behind Babe Ruth's 714 and 52 behind Hank Aaron's 755. After the season, Bonds became embroiled in an investigation of alleged steroid use in sports when he told a grand jury he had inadvertently used a cream that might have included steroids in 2003.

Bonds blasts No. 700Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 700th career home run off Jake Peavy of the San Diego Padres at SBC Park in San Francisco on Sept. 17. Bonds is only the third player in Major League Baseball history to pass the 700-homer plateau. He finished the season with 703 homers, 11 behind Babe Ruth's 714 and 52 behind Hank Aaron's 755. After the season, Bonds became embroiled in an investigation of alleged steroid use in sports when he told a grand jury he had inadvertently used a cream that might have included steroids in 2003. (AP/Ben Margot)

Bonds blasts No. 700Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hits his 700th career home run off Jake Peavy of the San Diego Padres at SBC Park in San Francisco on Sept. 17. Bonds is only the third player in Major League Baseball history to pass the 700-homer plateau. He finished the season with 703 homers, 11 behind Babe Ruth's 714 and 52 behind Hank Aaron's 755. After the season, Bonds became embroiled in an investigation of alleged steroid use in sports when he told a grand jury he had inadvertently used a cream that might have included steroids in 2003.